Hi Penny:
I did not take it easy on the bored of education. They, of course, assumed that we were going to home school our son so they asked for our plan for our home schooling. Simply put, in my one page letter, I stated that our plan was to have no plan. They thanked me for my having provided them with our plan. They then asked if I would come to the bored of education to discuss our plan.
My wife did not come with me on this visit to the bored. When I met Barry Lee, the superintendent, I said to him that he was probably going to ask me why we were not sending our child to school and I said my answer to that question was that you can not get a good education by going to school. There is more to the story but basically, I was never challenged by the school system.
When he was 14, he decided to go to school to meet more people.

Good for you Gary!
I wish I’d knew then what I know now- We’d have done the same. But we were actively involved over and above the norm. Including all sorts of outdoors activities and teaching reading in a way that was more appropriate than the nonsense that was being taught at school and thankfully hubby was and continues to be excellent at math- oh and logic. Lots of logic games etc.,
All fun ways of learning

Hi Penny:
When we got married, my wife had two children from her previous marriage. Her husband had her go right back to work after they were born. When we got married, she wanted to stay at home with them right away. I agreed. I thought that was more important than money. When our son was born, she was still at home for her first two children. After reading some books by John Holt, Ivan Illich and others, along with my own experience at school, I decided not to send our son to school. She agreed.

It would be and on top of that a “toxic male” or worse yet be just like his father 😉

Gary, I agree with that 100 percent. We got our child through the public system, only by shoring up what they taught with additional math and reading. And the non necessity for 2 full time wages- In other words we sacrificed and did without so our child would have one parent accessible (me) No vacations. No fancy house. No fancy car. I felt then and do now that it was worth doing- Who but us will really have our child/children’s best interest at heart?